Edmund townsend



(No Model.)

E. TOWNSEND.

GATE.

No. 364.193. Patentedlvray .31,4 1887.

N. PETERS, Phowmhognphur, wnnin pppp c.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDMUN D TOVNSEND, OF OAK, GROVE, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO B. IV. COOK, OFNOBTHVILLE, MICHIGAN.

GATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No, 364,193, dated May 31,1887.

' i Application filed Oct( ber 9,8, 1886. Serial No. 217,441. (Nomodel.)

.T0 all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDMUND TowNsEND, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, residing at Oak Grove, in the county ol Livingston and State ofMichigan, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Gates,of which the following is a specification, refference being had thereinto the accompanyingdrawings.

This invention pertains to a certain new and useful improvement ingates; and it consists in the detailed construction, combination, andarrangement of the parts,substantially as hereinafterfully set forth,and particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a view in side elevation of myinvention, and

2 is a detail thereof.

In carrying out my invention I employ an upright post or standard, A,which is firmly embedded in the earth at its lower end, and the extremeupper end of said post or standard is sharp-pointed or tapered, as at c,the purpose of which will appear farther on. To this post or standardare secured, near either end thereof, two horizontally-disposed plates,c a', said plates having corresponding apertures for reception of twolugs or projections, b b, formed on the upper and lower ends of aliinging bar, B. By thus securing the ends of said bar the same ispermitted to turn or swing, of which more hereinafter.

O is a swinging gate, composed ofthe ordinary liorizontal bars,connected at their ends f and central portions by suitable uprightpieces,

secured two rolls, b2, the same being permitted .to turn freely betweensaid uprights. Iminediatel y above each of said rolls bZ are secured,between said uprights, two forwardly-projecting arms, d d", which extenda short distance out beyond this end of the gate, and each two of saidarms have secured between their extreme outer ends small rolls or wheelsd d. These rolls orwheels are disposed sufficiently far from the endofthe gate to permit ofthepassage ofthe swinging bar B between the rollsb2 and d, said rolls bearing, respectively, on the outer and innervertical edges of said bar, the

5o latter for this purpose being slightly rounded.

A series of holes or apertures, cl2, is formed in the hinging bar B, anda correspondinglyshaped aperture, cl3, is formed in the lower for- Awardly-projectiug arms, dd,and from this it will be seen that byinserting an ordinary pin through the aperture formed in said arms and acorresponding aperture in the bar B the gate can be held at any desiredpoint of elevation, the raising of said gate being effected by means nowto be described.

D D are two upright arms 'pivoted at their lower ends to the centralupright pieces of the gate C, said arms projecting above said gate abouthalf their length. Between the upper ends of these arms is pivotallysecured one end of a lever, E, said lever being fulcrumed on the uppertapered end of the post A, which end of the post enters a correspond-Vingly-shaped recess or aperture in the under side of said lever.

The gate is of course provided on its outer end with the usual slidinglatch, f, entering a long slot or aperture formed in the retainingpostF. From this it will be seen that by pulling downwardly on the outercndof the lever E the gate O will be raised or lowered to any desiredpoint, the rolls bz and dsliding on the swinging bar B. By inserting thepin through the aperture in the lower arms, d, and a correspondingaperture in the bar B, the gate will be retained in this position, andby withdrawing the sliding latchfthe gate can be swung in either lateraldirection.

My gate is so constructed as to provide against sagging of either endthereof; and it will be observed that in the accomplishment of theresult stated I dispense with the use of all weights, and my inventionis simple, cheap, and durable, and is not liable to get out of order.

I am aware that there is no novelty in afarmgate withoppositely-disposed rolls bearing against the sides of a pivoted bar, ina gate having a perforated pintle for securing the saine at any desiredheight by means of a pin, nor

in a gate hinged by means of a long pintle and having a weighted leverfulcrumed on a post and secured to the upper ends of two suspending armspivoted to the gate; and hence I do not make broad claim to the featureshere acknowledged to be old.

2 eefle Having thus fully described my invention, 1 and theforwardly-projecting arms carrying 1o what claim, and desire to seciireby Letters foils, one pair of said arms being` aperbured, Patent, isx Il substantially as shown and described.

The combination, with the gate, the post, n testimony whereof I afx mysignature in 5 the lever, and the arms connecting said lever presenceoftwo Witnesses.

to the gate,of the swinging bar having a series EDMUND TOVNSEND. ofapertures secured. by horizontally-disposed Vitnesses: plates projectingfrom said pest', the roils se- MIoHAEL HULL,

' cured between Jhe end nprights of said gate, GHAs. STEELE,

